Mojo #364 - Happy Halloween

Hey everyone! I had this bat already colored up and it looked like it might work with today's Mojo Monday sketch!

It's a tight fit, but I made it work!

Bat is a stamp from Paper Smooches that is colored with Copic's. The sentiment is from Alota stamps that I manipulated into two to fit this sketch. Thank goodness for washi tape. It covered the words while inking each word to stamp separately.

Candy designer paper is from DCWV from a few years ago. It was in my Halloween paper stash and worked great for this sketch.

Lastly, I added some googly eyes to the corners just for fun!

Thanks for stopping by!

Bats

Hello! I can't believe that Halloween is right around the corner. I haven't even bought my candy or anything else yet! Eek!

Here's some more cool ribbon I got from May Arts to use for another CAS Halloween card.

Sentiment stamp is from Alota Stamps. Used the circle nesties to frame it out. Orange and purple paper is from K&Company.

Added the googlie eyes at the bottom on a whim and loved how it looks! What do you think?

Spiders and cool ribbon

Hi everyone! Here's a card that I created around this really cool ribbon that I found at one of the local craft stores from May Arts and had to have it.

The stamp is from TAC and stamped in Archival jet black ink. I enhanced the black polka dots on her tights by using a black gel pen. Her spider web dress is also highlighted with a stardust pen but it didn't pick up in the photo.

I made the spider using a button, googlie eyes and black scrappers floss and attached him onto that awesome ribbon with a glue dot.

Happy Halloween sentiment is from Alota stamps. Bright neon green cardstock is from K&Company.

Thanks for stopping in and I hope you have time to get crafty!

Happy 4-wheelin' B Day

Today is my DH's birthday and here's the card I made for him. He's so going to flip out!

Let me give you some back ground on this one! First of all, DH has a black jeep wrangler that is his pride and joy! Secondly, the dog is always with him and lastly, he has just aquired a canoe!

I used a lot of different stamps on this card to make this scene work. The jeep and canoe is from Stampin' Up, the mountain is from Alota rubber stamps, tree stamp from The Angel Company and the rocks is from Stamps by Judith. I colored most of this with Copic markers and air brushed on the dirt (still need to work on that technique) and added some liquid applique for the snow covered mountain. The jeep is colored with a black prisma color pencil and blended out with OMS. It was also cut out and popped up with foam tape. I daubered on some clouds using my cloud stencil and colorbox sky blue chalk ink.

Have a super weekend!

Card Sketch #96

Here's sketch #96! This one measures 4 1/4 x 5 1/2.









My mojo was missing while making this sketch! After making 10 get well cards (see post below) and designing cards and misc. stuff for TAC's December Stamp of the Month...nothing was working with this one! It took me several hours and numerous starts and stops. Grrr! So, for such a simple sketch....it is what it is!











Paper is from The Crafter's Workshop called enchanted complements that came in a 8 x 8 pack. The top strip measures 1 3/4 x 5 1/2 and then I layered it with white card stock. The oval is cut using nestabilities, then sponged around the edges. Three brass brads were added to the right hand side. This could be used as a masculine birthday card, which I don't have a lot of in my stash. That's the only highlight in this time consuming project! =)

Hope you all have a great week!





Supplies:
Paper - The crafter's Workshop
Stamps - TAC Deco Designs, Sentiment from Alota Rubber Stamps
Ink - Palette Noir and Jardin Moss

Card Sketch #90 - Halloween

Good day everyone! Here's sketch #90, measuring the normal A2 size.

This is a retired TAC image that I just think is adorable. He is colored with prisma color pencils and blended with OMS. I also used a few Copic's on the smaller details like the moon and the stars. I picked up the pebble/bubble black paper at my LSS last year thinking it would make a cool back ground for a halloween card.

The Sentiment is from Alota Rubber Stamps. I added an outline with Copic Cool Gray marker and then added the dots around it so that it went with the main image. I used the ticket punch to punch the corners and added some mini black brads. I found some purple grosgrain ribbon in my stash that matched the Core'dinations card stock that I layered everything with.

I used the same image and a horizontal sentiment to complete the sketch over at SCS. I just loved how the colors went together, so I stuck with it! The polka dots are a stamp from Clear Dollar stamps. I stamped it in Palette Noir then went over them with a black glaze gel pen. This made them stand out and match that wonderful pepple/bubble black CS in the back ground.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. I will be posting the winner of my blog candy sometime on Saturday.

AC-100 Sparmax Compressor review

If you read my previous post, you know that my DH bought me a compressor to use with my Copic markers. I've been playing around today and thought I'd do a review on the compressor and show you some samples. First of all here's the compressor.

I bought this at COPICmarkerS.com - a period style and the service was great! This is the cheapest place that I found for this brand of compressor. So, for the pro's and con's.

Pro's -

• Small and light weight - 8.4 pounds


• Maintenance free


• Quiet - motor is 1/8 HP


• Long braided hose - almost 10'


• Really powerful for how petite it is - max pressure 80 psi


• No more buying air cans
  

Con's

• Cost

Here are a few of my samples:

The sky and grass are done with Copic Sketch markers in B00 Frost blue and G07 Nile green. I masked the mountain range when air brushing and used my Picasso stencil for the clouds. The Mountains are colored with Copic Ciao markers in Sand E33 and E30 Bisque. The snow is liquid applique. I stamped the forest of tree's in Palette Jardin Moss. All stamps are from Alota Stamps. This turned out to be my Father's Day card for my Dad this year.

This next example was done using a template. I cut out the star die onto a piece of acetate and air brushed it onto the white scalloped circle. Noticed I used the Copic Ciao marker in Y17. All I did was use a piece of square foam tape to position the marker correctly into the air grip. Sentiment is from The Angel Company.
I used the Copic black multi liner in .003 to add my dots around the star and scalloped edges.

This is going to be one item that I will get a lot of use out of! I think I got a pretty good deal - DH bought this for me so I wouldn't complain about the money he spent on a canoe. Who do you think will get more use out of their new toy? Definitely me! =) You can only use a canoe two, maybe three month's out of the year - I get to play all year long!

Hope you enjoyed my ramblings/review on the compressor. Have a great weekend everyone! I have a strong suspicion that I will be out on the water in a canoe, instead of air brushing!